Well, faithful readers, it seems I've been somewhat lax in my blogging over the last couple of months. I need to get back to it! So I'll do just that by talking about how half the fun of reading books is the accumulation of them. And in my house, there's been some pretty significant accumulation lately.
My husband and I each belong to a history book club, and lately there have been quite a few books on sale that appealed to us. I believe that, to date, we have added approximately 20 books to our shelves. I love adding books to shelves. Really, I enjoy it so much I should have been a librarian instead of a lawyer. In fact, that's the first thing I wanted to be "when I grew up" when I was a kid. If I had to do it over again, I'd have gotten a library science degree. But it's fun for me to figure out where on the shelf a new book (or in this case 20 new books) should go. The only problem is that just a few months ago I had my shelves just as I wanted them. I don't like books from end to end. Rather, I prefer to have pictures, or vases or candles or whatever else on the shelves to break up the line of books. So, now I'm going to need a new shelf so I can spread them out again.
The next challenge comes in January. See, for every book purchased in November, you can do a buy-one-get-one-free deal in January. I don't know that we're ready for another 40 books though! Yikes! Maybe I should just get two more shelves right away just in case. Or maybe we should just exercise some restraint for once....
